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...Fischer Boel, a dogged Dane who owns three farms of her own, is undaunted by the odds. She says reform is vital if the E.U. is to keep up with changing global markets. "It aims to simplify, streamline and modernize the CAP and give our farmers the tools to handle the new challenges they face, such as climate change," she said...
Manoel de Oliveira was born in 1908,and made his first film, Douro, Faina Fluvial (Working on the Douro River) in 1931, when he was 22. That documentary, a vital panorama of dockside life in Oporto, Portugal, was shown today, with the director, who will be 100 on December 11, in attendance. Oliveira has been a mainstay in the Cannes competition for a quarter century, providing such sere delights as The Cannibals (with its comic shock of a conclusion), Voyage to the Beginning of the World (Marcello Mastroianni's last great film) and I'm Going Home, with a wonderful...
...that Oliveira has two films in production. If he keeps going, and his vigor today suggests that's not a problem, he will eclipse Leni Riefenstahl (who released her last movie on her 100th birthday in 2002) as the world's oldest cineaste. And one of the most vital. "Vive le cinema!" he exclaimed before striding offstage. Oliveira is living proof that cinema is a game old men can play with agility and ageless grace...
...Well, maybe not in that empyrean, but arguably in the ballpark. It's hard not to feel warmly toward Allen after VCB, his first vital movie since Match Point three years ago (we quickly throw the veil of oblivion over Scoop and Cassandra's Dream), and maybe his most engaging large-scale effort since, let's say, Crimes and Misdemeanors nearly 20 years ago. It doesn't percolate with the inventive comic situations or quotable one-liners of the films that established his meta-movie credentials, Annie Hall and Manhattan; but, like them, this one is about people whose jobs...
...four months in overtime and multiple lawsuits from environmental groups, the Bush Administration today listed the polar bear as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). But it may not matter much. At a press conference in Washington, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne acknowledged that Arctic sea ice - vital for the polar bears' survival - was clearly receding, and that scientific studies by the U.S. Geological Service (USGS) estimated some 30% decline in sea ice by mid-century. (A study by the USGS released last September projected a two-thirds decline in the world's polar bear population - currently standing...